Quotes About Inquiry

The world responds to those who ask—Lisa

One of the first rules of interrogation was to only ask questions to which you already knew the answers.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

As Tony Robbins said, "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, "What if?" and "Why not?" and "How come?

And, sometimes, such stories, dreams, can only be told in questions, can only be found in answers.

The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.

Do you remember . . . ? someone's always asking and someone always does.

Do you remember?' Someone's always asking and someone else, always does

To teach what one doesn't know is simply to ask questions about what one doesn't know.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

I said, "All along I have been wondering how you got to be the way you are. Just how it was that you got to be the way you are.

How the hell should I know? I'm just a grunt.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

l'unica cosa su cui sarai giudicata è se l'hai chiesto.

Questions lead to further questions, and inquiry breeds insight. Gathering expertise brings both confidence and consolation. E. O. Wilson wrote: "You start by loving a subject. Birds, probability theory, stars, differential equations, storm fronts, sign language, swallowtail butterflies....The subject will be your lodestar and give sanctuary in the shifting mental universe.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?

We know we are very special," Davis writes in "Special": "Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?" (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")

Eis aí uma boa pergunta, dizem os políticos nojentos e não sabem responder a essa boa pergunta.

The great pleasure of ignorance is, after all, the pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering, is already beginning to stiffen.

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer